3:29 PM,
May 24, 2013

A person fills out a block map during a meeting in January in Lancaster about the Art of Neighboring.

Written by

Michelle George
The Eagle-Gazette Staff

Five years ago, Amy Lively took a bold and life-changing step: She invited 89 of her neighbors over for coffee.

"I didn't know any of my neighbors. I had been here seven years and I didn't know the people (who lived) behind me or beside me," said Lively, associate pastor of Life Church in Pleasantville.

So Lively made invitations, tied them to some bags of coffee, and distributed them throughout her Lancaster neighborhood. About 20 of her neighbors showed up and, before long, Lively and a number of the women regularly were meeting for a neighborhood Bible study. ...